I decided to get my Rolex serviced after 20 years of wearing a Timex then 3 years of Apple Watch. I tried wearing one on each arm for a week or two. I decided that for me wearing just the Apple Watch was right. I felt two watches was ridiculous. Mechanical watch only tells time while aw does so much more and I like all the extras aw does. YMMV.
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Is it ever ok to wear two watches?
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There are way more reasons than just the three you mention to wear a mechanical watch. Among others: (1) to celebrate an achievement or milestone, (2) as appreciation for the engineering and craftsmanship, (3) for their timeless character (ironic I know), (4) brand history, (5) their non-disposable qualities or durability that can spand decades (some can even be heirloom pieces), (6) an investment, (7) or you just simply like them, etc. etc. etc.
There is nothing wrong with wearing two watches if that is what you want to do. I do that when running.
I've done it on occasions but can never keep going. Here is a great article from a watch lover.
www.hodinkee.com
Double-Wristing: A Guide For The Perplexed
How to feel more natural about doing something that feels … unnatural.
www.hodinkee.com
I guess you never lived through the 80s when Swatches were popular and kids wore like 3 at a time.... 🙂
If you want the style of a mechanical watch, plus the biometric data collection from the Apple Watch, but feel self-conscious about wearing two visible watches, Twelve South and others make bands that allow you to wear the watch on your upper arm or your ankle. That way you still get the health tracking, but only show one watch on your wrist.
Personally, I Can't think of a time when I've ever seen anyone were two watches at the same time, but I think that is more a reflection of how little anyone pays attention to other's watches, rather than the fact that no one around me has ever done it. If my boss or spouse was doing it every day, I'd probably eventually notice, but from just quick interactions with others, it never registers.
I will say that I've seen a lot crazier fashion trends than wearing two watches.
Personally, I Can't think of a time when I've ever seen anyone were two watches at the same time, but I think that is more a reflection of how little anyone pays attention to other's watches, rather than the fact that no one around me has ever done it. If my boss or spouse was doing it every day, I'd probably eventually notice, but from just quick interactions with others, it never registers.
I will say that I've seen a lot crazier fashion trends than wearing two watches.
I have wore 2 watches at once before. My Rolex on my left wrist and an activity tracker type running watch on the right.
A guy I was stood next to in a queue asked me why I was wearing 2 watches and laughed about it and I just looked at him and raised my left wrist, once he saw the Rolex he backed off. Anyone who wears a Rolex around where I live where the average yearly wage is £8,000 a year (that's genuinely true as they offer 0 hour contracts and 2 houses next street to me sold for £6,000 each as they were ex crack dens) is normally a guy not to be messed with and he apologised and even let me jump in front of him in the queue because he assumed I was a roadman with contacts. The moral of the story is wear as many watches as you want, if someone questions it then be a man to stand up for yourself and prove you're a man
A guy I was stood next to in a queue asked me why I was wearing 2 watches and laughed about it and I just looked at him and raised my left wrist, once he saw the Rolex he backed off. Anyone who wears a Rolex around where I live where the average yearly wage is £8,000 a year (that's genuinely true as they offer 0 hour contracts and 2 houses next street to me sold for £6,000 each as they were ex crack dens) is normally a guy not to be messed with and he apologised and even let me jump in front of him in the queue because he assumed I was a roadman with contacts. The moral of the story is wear as many watches as you want, if someone questions it then be a man to stand up for yourself and prove you're a man
Here are some photos of some people who genuinely wore more than one watch
Nicolas Hayek
Bobby George used to wear about 7 watches when he played darts but replaced it with bling
Nicolas Hayek
Bobby George used to wear about 7 watches when he played darts but replaced it with bling
That’s the last reason why one would wear a nice mechanical watch. Watch brands know this too and acknowledge it.
Most of the reasons fall in the three categories I mentioned before.
(1) this is not limited to watches. One can celebrate a milestone in many ways, buying a car, taking a trip abroad etc.
(2) (3) (4) (5) and (7) fall in the category of watches as art
(6) is minority and only a thing in the past couple of years, except for “watches as art” which was always a thing
I mentioned it in order to set a different context to the OP’s question. When one wants to wear mechanical watches, but also benefit from the features of smartwatches there really is a struggle to find a way. Obviously this doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of life, but hey, this is an AW forum not “how to solve world hunger” 😉
Wear what you want to wear - As I have got older I have realised I dont need to abide by other peoples ideas of " good taste" - Wear what works for you, always.
Interesting. 🤔 Next time I am in the market for fine art, I'll look to the engineering and durability before purchasing. As for wearing two watches ... it's not quite the same thing as solving world hunger. Most people have two arms. 😉
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I wear a mechanical watch on my left arm (as I’ve done since I was 8 or 9) and now an Apple Watch on my my right too - no-one cares one way or another
Yes, but rule 28 says that, if one must ask if it’s okay to wear something to a forum audience, they are probably too uncomfortable to do it no matter the response.
It’s the guys that just do it and don’t care that adhere to rule 27.
TIL an excessively expensive watch that's supposed to be the pinnacle of all watches needs regular expensive service to do its one job.
This just confirms the idea that Rolexes are only for showing off how much excess money one has.
It doesn’t. It’s job isn’t time, it’s to impress people. No point even getting it serviced since the time and accuracy don’t matter. 😀
To be fair, an AW would need servicing too if it was a multi-decade device. (Seals/battery).
I wear my regular mechanical watch on my left (as usual) and wear my Apple Watch on the right wrist.
I don't give a **** what anyone else thinks. LOL!
I don't give a **** what anyone else thinks. LOL!
You have every right to give yourself permission to wear watches however you want. There's even a term to describe wearing two watches, 'double wristing'. I did this, I don't care about it, and so far no one cares or asks me about it - perhaps only watch enthusiasts/fashion police will notice it.
Go Castro-style, sir, and wear both watches on the same wrist.
In seriousness - for most people, two watches is just a real, real hard look to pull off.
You can do it, but it's not a great idea if you care at all about how it looks to other people (which is a far more common and normal thing to care about a little bit than many would like to admit).
In seriousness - for most people, two watches is just a real, real hard look to pull off.
You can do it, but it's not a great idea if you care at all about how it looks to other people (which is a far more common and normal thing to care about a little bit than many would like to admit).
Might be more justifiable with Watch faces that didn’t show the time. Right now they all show the time in some fashion. Instead, the face would just be a bunch of complications - everything but the time.
So your old watch could keep its monopoly on time and the Apple Watch could do everything else (phone, music, schedule, info, weather, payments, health, door locks, remote, etc).
So your old watch could keep its monopoly on time and the Apple Watch could do everything else (phone, music, schedule, info, weather, payments, health, door locks, remote, etc).
Mmmh - sounds like a new business idea: Make Watch bands that allow to connect two Watches (Apple or mechanical in every desired combination) in parallel - either side-by-side, stacked 2D along the wrist or hiding one upside down under the wrist (for an additional fee, the latter version allows to simply turn the band to easily bring up either Watch for the respective situation). 😎
And if I can convince Apple to modify watchOS, we may even be able to connect and arrange 4 watches to form one big display! WIN-WIN-WIN situation 😅
And if I can convince Apple to modify watchOS, we may even be able to connect and arrange 4 watches to form one big display! WIN-WIN-WIN situation 😅